„Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.“
Coexistence reminds me of this quote from the matrix.

Among intellectuals, „metabolic rift“ is a real thing. It can be easily identified with Kant’s categorical imperative (which I refer to as a Moral Intelligence Quotient or MIQ), Objectivists contend that operationalizing concepts like metabolic rift with a natural moral dimension is „delusional.“ It is just a way to steal the wealth using moral imperatives that do not naturally exist.
We can see this Objectivist, philosophy of the risk in operation, in America, right now. (The MIQ is falling fast!). Management of the risk is described as being spontaneously derived from natural law (the natural rights of man, or the sovereignty of self-rule). Nature, however, like Kant said, is what really rules — it is THE actual existence; or as you suggest (with the accuracy of creative addjection that is „the“ work of art), it is the imperative „Coexistence.“ …
Always very best wishes, Josephine!
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